Photo: Reuters An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred in Japan on Monday, Interfax reports, citing local media. According to Japanese seismologists, there is no threat of a tsunami. The epicenter of the tremors was located in Tochigi Prefecture. The earthquake, which lasted about 30 seconds, was also felt by residents of Tokyo. According to the NHK television channel , no serious damage was recorded. Nuclear power plants located near the epicenter of the earthquake were not damaged. Interfax

Photo: Reuters The 85th Academy Awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles. As usual, the most sought-after actors, directors, screenwriters and producers in Hollywood gathered at the Dolby Theater.

Former KTZ top manager Semyon Mlodik, accused of fraud with shares of one of the assets of the machine-building holding Concern Tractor Plants (KTZ) - Promtractor-Vagon CJSC, has been released from custody. A source in law enforcement agencies told the Interfax agency on Monday that the Supreme Court of Chuvashia overturned the district court's decision to replace bail with detention.

The head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to check the appeal of the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky regarding slander against him by the Socialist Revolutionary deputy Ilya Ponomarev, Interfax reported with reference to the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.

The mother of the Kuzminykh brothers Julia Kuzmina turned to the territorial department of social protection of the population of the Gdovsky district (Pskov region) with a request to help collect the necessary documents to restore parental rights in relation to the youngest son of Cyril, Interfax was told in management. “In the statement, she asks her to provide her with a list of necessary documents,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, Kuzmina’s answer will be given in writing.

From Maxim Canonenko. PS is clear that he is getting scores with the French government, but I think that soon he will be considered saints. Original

Photo: Reuters 60-year-old Park Geun-hye became the first woman to become president of South Korea. On February 25, she took the oath and officially took office. The ceremony in Seoul was watched by several tens of thousands of people. In her 15-minute inaugural speech, she quite expectedly touched upon the issue of relations with her northern neighbor. Park Geun-hye called on North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions and follow the path of peaceful development.

For some reason, hepatitis C is not one of those diseases (unlike, for example, HIV or tuberculosis), at the mention of which the average person usually shudders and bad images fly through his head. This may be due to the fact that the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the word hepatitis is jaundice (i.e. hepatitis A), which does not cause any terrible associations.

Photo: support of the power line in the form of a snow leopard near the road to Krasnaya Polyana. ITAR-TASS Disconnecting of light in the winter Sochi is a phenomenon that has long been familiar to local residents. Blackauts usually happen in February, when wires are torn under the weight of snow, ice or fallen trees.

In Nazran on Monday morning, unknown persons fired from automatic weapons at the official car of the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor department for Ingushetia, Ruslan Dakhkilgov. “At approximately 09:05 Moscow time, on Moskovskaya Street, unknown persons fired at a car in which Ruslan Dakhkilgov and his driver were traveling. As a result of the shelling, both were wounded and were hospitalized in a local hospital,” a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies told the Interfax agency.

A resident of Yakutsk attempted suicide by self-immolation, the head of the press service of the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Stanislav Platonov, told the Interfax agency on Monday. According to him, the incident happened on the night of February 23. Male born 1979 doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. The emergency happened in one of the wooden houses. A fire in the house was avoided; firefighters arrived and extinguished the flames in the entrance.

Dagestan men are so harsh that... But is this really so? In fact, the system of fears of the Dagestani is multipolar and quite stable. I'll explain why. Of course, any Dagestani, within the limits of statistical error, will naturally say that he is not afraid of anything. But this would be cunning. Our brother is afraid. Not physical suffering, not ozone holes, spiders, atomic bombs, war on two fronts, information blockade. No, no, no! Everything is quite simpler.

While the Constitutional Court is considering whether to join the popular movement to boycott the “thieves’ Olympics in Sochi,” the Expert Council of the Opposition is preparing a corresponding Expert Opinion in support of the people’s movement, these people themselves on the Facebook resource “Boycott the Olympics in Sochi” (the resource’s slogan is “Boycott the Thieves’ Olympics”) Olympics in a country of political repression!”).

Acting President of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov apologized for the actions of five natives of the republic who extinguished the Eternal Flame in the Brotherly Garden memorial complex in the center of Astrakhan. “We apologize to all Astrakhan residents and hope that this incident will not affect the good neighborly and respectful relations of Dagestanis with residents of Astrakhan and other regions of the country.

"Democracy is the rule of the people, chosen by the people and for the people" /A. Lincoln/ "The Ministry of Regional Development will double the number of Russians for 125 billion rubles" The Izvestia newspaper dated February 15, 2013 published a material entitled “The Ministry of Regional Development will double the number of Russians for 125 billion rubles.” Only 44% of residents of the Russian Federation consider themselves Russians.